Holiday storytime: English as a Second Language students share their skills

Francisco Velasquez, right, a native of Mexico, and Ruge Li, from China, read a Christmas story to children in the multiage classroom at Meadow Lane Elementary School on Tuesday. They are part of the English as a Second Language program at Wayne Community College and were given an opportunity to practice what they had learned, as well as share some of their own holiday traditions with the local students.

The students were anxious but excited about reading to the multiage class at Meadow Lane Elementary School on Tuesday. Francisco Velasquez and Ruge Li had already picked out a Christmas story to share. They had practiced and felt prepared. But...